Port of the week

Leif Jensen, Port of Thorsminde, presents Port of the Week

About the benefits of having smaller fishing vessels that ensure high-quality landings, about the high hopes for a more lenient planning law that can provide better utilization of the entire Port of Thorsminde, and about retiring from the Port of Thorsminde and the best years at the port when it became an autonomous port

Carsten Aa, Lindø port of Odense, presents Port of the Week

About a port with growing pains in terms of both manpower and space. About adding more value than just acting as a landlord for customers, but also offering specialized services such as lifting to attract new customers. About starting Lindø Education Center with the idea of combining smart heads with smart hands and making it attractive for young people to have an exciting and developing working life as part of the blue industries.

Theis Christensen, Thyborøn Port - presents Port of the Week

About the valuable collaboration with the port's customers that constructively ensures progress for customers and the port, about expectations for greater growth in fish and about the need for more quay space, which is now being realized with Limfjordskaj II.

Claus Hjørne Pedersen, S/I Strandby Fiskerihavn - presents Port of the Week

About the positive trends in the fishing industry that make S/I Strandby Harbour look at expansion plans, about the responsibility that comes with being chairman of both the harbour and the fishing association, and about knowing your limitations and specializing and being a strong service provider for the benefit of the port's customers.

Søren Schow, Port of Nexø A/S - presents Port of the Week

About being chairman of a port where cooperation with the city of Nexø is top notch, about helping to secure the largest profit in the history of the Port of Nexø, and about helping to develop a brand new development project that will breathe life into a disused commercial area at the port.

Michael Baltzer presents the Port of Næstved - Port of the Week

About having a relentless customer focus, which has led to the development of a completely new type of pallet fork so that the port can optimize its operations and services for customers, about required pilotage, which requires extra focus on competitiveness, about increasing cargo turnover despite the crisis and about standing together at the Port of Næstved.

Nicolai Krøyer presents the Port of Aarhus - Port of the Week

About running the Port of Aarhus as a business rather than an authority, about attracting more cruise ships to Aarhus, which in 2016 means that 80,000 guests visited Aarhus, and about increasing container turnover by 5 percent despite a tough global market

Winni Grosbøll, Mayor of Bornholm Regional Municipality, presents Rønne Havn A/S - Port of the Week

About going from a depleted cash balance to a handsome profit in three years, about a new specific ownership strategy between the municipality and the port with specific requirements for earnings and a promise that no housing will be built at the port, and new opportunities in offshore.

Mads Timmerman and Jonas Krogslund present Korsør Harbor - Port of the Week

About how the Port of Korsør has moved from traditional ferry operations to a modern commercial port with the facilities and flexibility that characterize an efficient commercial port, about a significant increase in earnings of 20%, and about putting the customer at the center and telling the good stories about good customer relations on social and digital media.

Jørgen Buhl presents LollandErhvervshavne - Port of Nakskov and Rødbyhavn Trafikhavn

The picture shows Jørgen Buhl, Port Manager, LollandErhvervshavne - Port of Nakskov and Rødbyhavn Trafikhavn About being responsible for well-known ports with enormous local support, about having a really good and productive interaction between customers, ports and politicians, about MHI Vestas Offshore Wind A/S will produce its turbine blades for the large new Vestas V164-8 [...]